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From: howardl@wb3ffv.UUCP (Howard Leadmon )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: XENIX VS Micoport
Summary: Why don't I have any bad luck ??
	 I guess I'm lucky :-)
Keywords: Which to buy??
Message-ID: <524@wb3ffv.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 05:53:00 GMT
References: <252@fedeva.UUCP> <353@igloo.UUCP>
Organization: Fast Computer Service, Inc. - Middle River, MD
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In article <353@igloo.UUCP>, jjw@igloo.UUCP (John Welch) writes:
>
>    There has been a lot of discussion (and flames) in comp.unix.xenix about
> this. To summarize our local experience, Microport is cheaper. It also has
> serious serial-port and hard-disk driver problems, and at least 4 times per
> week gives a double-panic.
> XENIX is reputed to behave much better. I have no experience to back up that
> claim.
> -- 

   I wonder why everyone has been having all this trouble with Microport UNIX,
I have been running Microport System V/AT since the 1.3.6 release which was
about two years ago. I have also had this version (now at 2.2U) running on
several different machines, still no problems like mentioned above...

 I am now running Microport V/386 (System V Release 3) on my 80386 machines
and haven't had any real problems with the thing yet. Now I have only had
the 386 port up for about two months, but so far, so good. I am running the
80386 version on a WYSE-3216 machine (16mhz 80386) with 2meg SCRAM, 190 meg
PRIAM Harddrive, and a Bell Technoliges ICC (smart serial controller) 6 port
card. To date my biggest problem is getting debuged software for the ICC
controller, but that is NO major problem. Oh, just one more tid-bit of
information, I am also using the NEW Western Digital track cache harddrive
controller at a 1:1 interleave (WD1006-WAH), and it has really helped the
HD throughput. The 1:1 controller benchmarks with a 280% increase in HD
performance. I just figured I would tell you how things are working out 
over on my end...



						Sincearly,
						Howard Leadmon
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